Got into a Twitter debate with Bill Baer from Crashburn Alley. If you read through this thread, he never does acknowledge that he never statistically proved his conclusion. And for the record, Mark Simon of ESPN concluded, using the same ZiPS info that Baer was using, that the Mets’ OF in 2013 should produce the exact same OPS as in 2012, therefore making it neither better nor worse.
#hackystatisticalanalysis RT @AmazinAvenue I thought @CrashburnAlley was better than to jump on this bandwagon. bit.ly/Y4Tw2Y—
ChrisG (@chrisgbb) March 23, 2013
@chrisgbb @AmazinAvenue how was it hacky—
Bill Baer (@CrashburnAlley) March 23, 2013
If you were gonna build this $132M payroll for the 2016 #Mets, would you want Bourn as 4th-most $? docs.google.com/spreadsheet/cc…—
ChrisG (@chrisgbb) February 12, 2013
Craig Calcaterra (“Blogger-in-Chief at HardballTalk at NBCsports.com. Critic to the critics.”) has done tremendous work on the Alex Rodriguez scandal. Click the “Read more…” link below for all his tweets, presented without further comment in chronological order. Running total: 103 tweets, 38 blog posts & articles linked.
First, a splash of his most recent tweet …
Mike Lupica thinks Major League Baseball has the power to convene grand juries dlvr.it/2wMvgf #mlb #hbt—
Hardball Talk (@HardballTalk) February 08, 2013
And from here down is in chronological order starting with when the story broke …
So, like many other Mets fans recently, I’ve been contemplating the ramifications of the Mets (hypothetically) signing Michael Bourn to a $15M contract. Some pros and cons …
At first I was against it because he’s 30 and I was under the impression that speed guys age badly because guys age 30 or older are rarely ranked towards the top of stolen base leaders. However, I found evidence compiled by Jeff Zimmerman saying Read more…
Today, I dip my toe into the blogging world. I promise you the possiblity of some mildly insightful baseball thoughts, most of which will be about the Mets. If you want a better guarantee than that, perhaps this is more your speed:
